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Kirby Fields is a neighborhood writer and the Artistic Director of UP Theater Company, which produced his full-length plays K COMMA JOSEPH and LOST/NOT FOUND. His short plays have been featured in the Sam French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival, the Gallery Players One-Act Play Festival, and the NY 15-minute Play Festival. His plays have also been produced or developed in Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington DC, and Kansas City. His short film, "Not So Hilarious Anymore," which he wrote and prod...

Kirby Fields is a neighborhood writer and the Artistic Director of UP Theater Company, which produced his full-length plays K COMMA JOSEPH and LOST/NOT FOUND. His short plays have been featured in the Sam French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival, the Gallery Players One-Act Play Festival, and the NY 15-minute Play Festival. His plays have also been produced or developed in Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington DC, and Kansas City. His short film, "Not So Hilarious Anymore," which he wrote and prod...

Kirby Fields is a neighborhood writer and the Artistic Director of UP Theater Company, which produced his full-length plays K COMMA JOSEPH and LOST/NOT FOUND. His short plays have been featured in the Sam French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival, the Gallery Players One-Act Play Festival, and the NY 15-minute Play Festival. His plays have also been produced or developed in Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington DC, and Kansas City. His short film, "Not So Hilarious Anymore," which he wrote and prod...

Born and raised in Washington Heights in New York City, Miguel Mike Medina is a Dominican-American actor, writer, and filmmaker. His acting career began when he performed two One-Act Plays: Poison and The Game while he was attending the City College of New York. Following his graduation, he has directed, produced, written, and starred in multiple short films, including: The Grade, Bittersweet Holiday, Torn Feelings, From Dad, To Bobby, Valentine's Dinner, and many more. Medina’s films have won 2...

Born and raised in Washington Heights in New York City, Miguel Mike Medina is a Dominican-American actor, writer, and filmmaker. His acting career began when he performed two One-Act Plays: Poison and The Game while he was attending the City College of New York. Following his graduation, he has directed, produced, written, and starred in multiple short films, including: The Grade, Bittersweet Holiday, Torn Feelings, From Dad, To Bobby, Valentine's Dinner, and many more. Medina’s films have won 2...

Born and raised in Washington Heights in New York City, Miguel Mike Medina is a Dominican-American actor, writer, and filmmaker. His acting career began when he performed two One-Act Plays: Poison and The Game while he was attending the City College of New York. Following his graduation, he has directed, produced, written, and starred in multiple short films, including: The Grade, Bittersweet Holiday, Torn Feelings, From Dad, To Bobby, Valentine's Dinner, and many more. Medina’s films have won 2...

Steven Burneson is an independent filmmaker and video production professional based in Washington Heights. He currently serves as head of post production at Red Summit Productions, having created content for clients such as PayPal, Mars, and Walmart. Steven’s upcoming narrative short, Beautiful Strokes, was a 2020 recipient of the Inwood Film Festival Filmmaker Fund. Steven’s first play, Cross Stitch Bandits, co-written with his fiance Sanam Laila Hashemi and developed under the mentorship of Da...

Steven Burneson is an independent filmmaker and video production professional based in Washington Heights. He currently serves as head of post production at Red Summit Productions, having created content for clients such as PayPal, Mars, and Walmart. Steven’s upcoming narrative short, Beautiful Strokes, was a 2020 recipient of the Inwood Film Festival Filmmaker Fund. Steven’s first play, Cross Stitch Bandits, co-written with his fiance Sanam Laila Hashemi and developed under the mentorship of Da...

Steven Burneson is an independent filmmaker and video production professional based in Washington Heights. He currently serves as head of post production at Red Summit Productions, having created content for clients such as PayPal, Mars, and Walmart. Steven’s upcoming narrative short, Beautiful Strokes, was a 2020 recipient of the Inwood Film Festival Filmmaker Fund. Steven’s first play, Cross Stitch Bandits, co-written with his fiance Sanam Laila Hashemi and developed under the mentorship of Da...

Matt Higgins is an original member of the spontaneous theatre troupes Centralia and Burn Manhattan. His improvisation bears the indelible influence of past directors Paul Sills and Shira Piven, as well as teachers Ralph Buckley, Paul Lazar, and Josh Broder. Matt is an Andy Kaufman Award Finalist and his stand-up has appeared on Comedy Central. His TV Credits include: The Jim Gaffigan Show, Late Night and Law & Order. Films include Shadowboxer, a Lee Daniels film. In early 2019 Matt wrapped produ...

Matt Higgins is an original member of the spontaneous theatre troupes Centralia and Burn Manhattan. His improvisation bears the indelible influence of past directors Paul Sills and Shira Piven, as well as teachers Ralph Buckley, Paul Lazar, and Josh Broder. Matt is an Andy Kaufman Award Finalist and his stand-up has appeared on Comedy Central. His TV Credits include: The Jim Gaffigan Show, Late Night and Law & Order. Films include Shadowboxer, a Lee Daniels film. In early 2019 Matt wrapped produ...

Matt Higgins is an original member of the spontaneous theatre troupes Centralia and Burn Manhattan. His improvisation bears the indelible influence of past directors Paul Sills and Shira Piven, as well as teachers Ralph Buckley, Paul Lazar, and Josh Broder. Matt is an Andy Kaufman Award Finalist and his stand-up has appeared on Comedy Central. His TV Credits include: The Jim Gaffigan Show, Late Night and Law & Order. Films include Shadowboxer, a Lee Daniels film. In early 2019 Matt wrapped produ...

Jeffrey James Keyes is an interdisciplinary writer and artist living Uptown NYC. He is a New York Times best-selling author for Killer Chef, which he co-authored with James Patterson. Keyes was the inaugural L’Engle-Rahman Prize recipient for Mentorship through PEN America. His award-winning short film Uniform was featured in over thirty film festivals worldwide and his short 181 was part of the first Inwood Film Festival. He just wrapped work on his latest project Christmas, which is a short th...

Jeffrey James Keyes is an interdisciplinary writer and artist living Uptown NYC. He is a New York Times best-selling author for Killer Chef, which he co-authored with James Patterson. Keyes was the inaugural L’Engle-Rahman Prize recipient for Mentorship through PEN America. His award-winning short film Uniform was featured in over thirty film festivals worldwide and his short 181 was part of the first Inwood Film Festival. He just wrapped work on his latest project Christmas, which is a short th...

Jeffrey James Keyes is an interdisciplinary writer and artist living Uptown NYC. He is a New York Times best-selling author for Killer Chef, which he co-authored with James Patterson. Keyes was the inaugural L’Engle-Rahman Prize recipient for Mentorship through PEN America. His award-winning short film Uniform was featured in over thirty film festivals worldwide and his short 181 was part of the first Inwood Film Festival. He just wrapped work on his latest project Christmas, which is a short th...

Brandon Stirling Baker is an Inwood-Based filmmaker and lighting designer working internationally in the areas of dance, opera, theatre and film. His lighting can be seen internationally in the repertories of New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, San Francisco Ballet, Boston Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and many others. Baker’s work has been presented by major venues including the Guggenheim Museum, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Hollywood Bowl,...

Brandon Stirling Baker is an Inwood-Based filmmaker and lighting designer working internationally in the areas of dance, opera, theatre and film. His lighting can be seen internationally in the repertories of New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, San Francisco Ballet, Boston Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and many others. Baker’s work has been presented by major venues including the Guggenheim Museum, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Hollywood Bowl,...

Brandon Stirling Baker is an Inwood-Based filmmaker and lighting designer working internationally in the areas of dance, opera, theatre and film. His lighting can be seen internationally in the repertories of New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, San Francisco Ballet, Boston Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and many others. Baker’s work has been presented by major venues including the Guggenheim Museum, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Hollywood Bowl,...

Marella Martin Koch is an Inwood-based librettist, director, and playwright that has been praised by the press for her “cleverness in constructing humor for opera” (from DC Theatre Scene) for her 20-minute opera Pepito; written with composer Nicolas Lell Benavides, for Washington National Opera at its Kennedy Center premiere in 2019. Marella also wrote the lyrics for Marianne Dashwood, Songs of Love & Misery and Elinor Dashwood, two song cycles written with the composer Aferdian and commissioned...

Marella Martin Koch is an Inwood-based librettist, director, and playwright that has been praised by the press for her “cleverness in constructing humor for opera” (from DC Theatre Scene) for her 20-minute opera Pepito; written with composer Nicolas Lell Benavides, for Washington National Opera at its Kennedy Center premiere in 2019. Marella also wrote the lyrics for Marianne Dashwood, Songs of Love & Misery and Elinor Dashwood, two song cycles written with the composer Aferdian and commissioned...

Marella Martin Koch is an Inwood-based librettist, director, and playwright that has been praised by the press for her “cleverness in constructing humor for opera” (from DC Theatre Scene) for her 20-minute opera Pepito; written with composer Nicolas Lell Benavides, for Washington National Opera at its Kennedy Center premiere in 2019. Marella also wrote the lyrics for Marianne Dashwood, Songs of Love & Misery and Elinor Dashwood, two song cycles written with the composer Aferdian and commissioned...

Maggie Clarke is a long-time Inwood resident and is the singer and rhythm guitarist for classic rock cover bands, The Apple Bonkers and The Meetles. She is also a concert and Landscape photographer, and the main concert photographer for the Zombies (band). In her non-musical life, she is a Zero Waste Professional, community environmental activist, founder and President, RING garden on Dyckman Street, the founder, Inwood Preservation, a founding member of Inwood Legal Action, and is on the boards...

Maggie Clarke is a long-time Inwood resident and is the singer and rhythm guitarist for classic rock cover bands, The Apple Bonkers and The Meetles. She is also a concert and Landscape photographer, and the main concert photographer for the Zombies (band). In her non-musical life, she is a Zero Waste Professional, community environmental activist, founder and President, RING garden on Dyckman Street, the founder, Inwood Preservation, a founding member of Inwood Legal Action, and is on the boards...

Maggie Clarke is a long-time Inwood resident and is the singer and rhythm guitarist for classic rock cover bands, The Apple Bonkers and The Meetles. She is also a concert and Landscape photographer, and the main concert photographer for the Zombies (band). In her non-musical life, she is a Zero Waste Professional, community environmental activist, founder and President, RING garden on Dyckman Street, the founder, Inwood Preservation, a founding member of Inwood Legal Action, and is on the boards...